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A reminder, too, that there are only 13 women in the House GOP caucus. This after the election in which a record 89 Democratic women were elected to the House. Hey, at least the number lines up pretty well with their outdated, fundamentalist attitude towards a full half the population.

And I will at this time further expound upon the “marrying up” concept. Dax is adorable, and sweet, and nice, and clearly absolutely crazy about his wife. These are VERY ATTRACTIVE QUALITIES. How are we supposed to pick our spouses? Bell chose the nicest guy in the room. Given the option, why would anyone do otherwise?

Maybe they’re just good records

Another former AV darling, Wye Oak, had the #1 album of 2011 but nowhere on this list. Weirdly,the #8 album of that year is now also the #8 album of the decade.

good kid 100% deserves that spot over DAMN though, that album has held up amazingly well

I mean, FDR did go after peonage, convict leasing, and debt bondage, basically stamping out the last forms of slave labour practiced in The South.

Looks like he just jumped to the top of the list.

Doolittle isn’t just the very best of the Nationals. He’s the best of baseball. We need a thousand more players like him.

You forgot Sean Doolittle, who is the very best of the Nationals. Doo is the best. He had the guts to state publicly why he wasn’t going. And he and his wife walk the walk and talk the talk in community activism. They hosted Thanksgiving dinner for Syrian refugees and got the community involved, when he was with…

This is definitely the wrong post to discuss this but... in case the day comes and Jez is shut down I have launched: https://www.reddit.com/r/Jezebelians/

The kind of person who is not afraid of the PC Police! It’s just a joke! Why are you so sensitive?

Then there’s this from his fond remembrance of dressing up as Daddy and bumping his “goods” into Huma Abedin:

The Trump boys got fewer chins than a Belfast phonebook. 

I’m absolutely devastated we lost Deadspin, but I am here for this kind of coverage on Jezebel. Rugby men for the win! 

Rugby league players for their thighs (their faces suffer somewhat due to the nature of the game)

I’m crying from laughter. This is excellent.

Finally! Someone on Kinja is covering the World Series. Too bad there’s not a site for that.
Clover, I enjoyed your article. I’d like to discuss one quote:
“there could be three teams out there to make it more interesting.”. Though I’m a baseball fan and I wouldn’t like this, I would like to watch a sport between three…

Barry, we gave it a shot over here:

Has anyone ever seen Thiel and Spanfeller in the same room? What is the end game, here? Because it’s certainly not about money. Everything move they’ve made thus far has been the antithesis of money-making. This is like the Underpants Gnomes plan for G/O Media.